Knierbein / Viderman Public Space Unbound

Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-44918-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Through an exploration of emancipation in capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space. This suggests democracy is a spatial practice co-constituted by residents, places, and practices rather than an abstract professional field organizing people and movements.

Public Space Unbound brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to examine spaces, conditions and processes in which emancipatory practices impact the everyday life of citizens. We ask: How do emancipatory mo(ve)ments relate with public space under ‘post-political conditions’? In a time when democracy, solidarity and utopia are in crisis, is it still productive to claim future progress by urban revolution, or shall we rather look at small emancipatory mo(ve)ments that characterize present everyday life?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knierbein, Sabine

Viderman, Tihomir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Space, Emancipation and Post-Political Urbanization

Sabine Knierbein and Tihomir Viderman

Part I Everyday Emancipation. Beyond Utopia, Law and Institutions

2. Amazon Unbound: Utopian Dialectics of Planetary Urbanization

Japhy Wilson

3. Applying a Relational Approach to Political Difference: Strategies of Particularisation and Universalisation in Contesting Urban Development

Elisabet Van Wymeersch and Stijn Oosterlynck

4. How to Reclaim Mafia-controlled Territory? An Emancipatory Experience in Naples

Gabriella Esposito de Vita

5. Improvising an Urban Commons of the Streets. Emancipation-from, Emancipation-to and Co-Emancipation

Rob Shields

Part II Practical Emancipation. On Places, Projects and Events

6. Rupturing, Accreting and Bridging: Everyday Insurgencies and Emancipatory City-making in Asia

Jeffrey Hou

7. Post-Political Development and Emancipation: Urban Participatory Projects in Helsinki

Kanerva Kuokkanen and Emilia Palonen

8. Urban Events Under the Post-political Condition: (Im)Possibilities for Emancipation in a Small-scale City of Switzerland

Monika Salzbrunn, Barbara Dellwo and Serjara Aleman

9. Emancipatory Research in the Arts: Shift the City - The Temporary Lab of Non Permanent Space

Amila Širbegovic

Part III Critical Emancipation. On Romanticisms, Agonism and Liberation

10. Alternative Participatory Planning Practices in the Global South: Learning from Co-production Processes in Informal Communities.

Vanessa Watson and Gilbert Siame

11. Revitalising Yeldegirmeni Neighbourhood in Istanbul: Towards an Emancipatory Urban Design in the Landscapes of Neoliberal Urbanism

Burcu Yigit Turan

12. Conflict vs. Consensus: An Emancipatory Understanding of Planning in a Pluralist Society

Angelika Gabauer

13. Public Space Activism in Unstable Contexts: Emancipation from Beirut’s Post-memory

Christine Mady

Part IV Active Emancipation. On Influence, Recovery and Hybrid Ownership

14. ‘The City Decides!’ Political Standstill and Social Movements in Post-industrial Naples

Stefania Ragozino and Andrea Varriale

15. Emancipatory Practices of Self-organized Workers in the Context of Neoliberal Policies: IMPA, the Case of a ‘Recovered Factory’ in Buenos Aires

Regina Vidosa and Paula Rosa

16. Questioning Urban Commons: Challenges and Potentials in the Post-Democratic Era

Lukas Franta and Alexander Hamedinger

17. Hybridising ‘Ownership’ of Public Space: Framings of Urban Emancipation in Crisis-ridden Thessaloniki

Evangelia Athanassiou, Charis Christodoulou, Matina Kapsali, Maria Karagianni

Conclusion

18. Public Space Unbound: Emancipatory Praxis and Lived Space

Tihomir Viderman and Sabine Knierbein

Über Autor(innen)

Sabine Knierbein is Associate Professor for Urban Culture and Public Space and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, TU Wien. Research foci: theory of urbanization, critique of everyday life, planning theory, and civic innovation. She is the editor of Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe (2014), Public Space and Relational Perspectives (2015) and City Unsilenced (2017).

Tihomir Viderman is an architect and planner, currently affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space of TU Wien as a doctoral candidate. For a number of years, he has been engaged in interdisciplinary research and teaching focusing on culturally inclusive and locally embedded approaches to working with lived urban space. He is particularly interested in how the expression of cultural difference is modulated by professionals in lived urban space.